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  • Semiotics for Screenwriters

    Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own

    You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, “You should know more about how cinema story works.” Perhaps you've heard how many successful screenwriters deconstruct or “break down” films and study them. You'd like to try this method but ask yourself, “How do I start?” Semiotics for Screenwriters can help you with this daunting task by taking you on a unique ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Location and Postproduction Sound for Low-Budget Filmmakers

    This book covers everything you need to know to master the fundamentals of location sound recording and postproduction sound in a comprehensive one-stop guide.This user-friendly book provides real world situations to analyze the many kinds of location recording configurations and postproduction scenarios and offers easy-to-adopt, budget-conscious solutions to some of the most common issues that ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters

    Storytelling Secrets from the Greatest Mind in Western Civilization

    This expert screenwriting guide shows how Aristotle's timeless principles apply to today's cinematic storytelling.Long considered the bible for storytellers, Aristotle's Poetics is a fixture of college courses on everything from fiction writing to dramatic theory. Now award-winning writer/director and Miramax story analyst Michael Tierno demonstrates how Aristotle's ideas can be an essential ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction—from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between

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    $12.99 USD

  • Writing Short Films

    Structure and Content for Screenwriters

    This new edition has been completely updated and revised along with the addition of several new chapters. Currently, this title remains the best selling university text book on writing short film screenplays. ... Read more

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  • Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2017

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    Foreword by Frances HardingeThe annual, bestselling guide to all aspects of the media and how to write and illustrate for children and young adults. Acknowledged by the media industries and authors as the essential guide to how to get published.The 70+ articles are updated and added to each year. Together they provide invaluable guidance on subjects such as series fiction, writing historical or ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Art of Character

    Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV

    by David Corbett ...
    Former private investigator and New York Times notable author David Corbett offers a unique and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the page and linger in memory. Corbett provides an inventive, inspiring, and vastly entertaining blueprint to all the elements of characterization-from initial inspiration to realization-with special insights into the power of ... Read more

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  • Screenplay Workbook

    The Writing Before the Writing

    An instructional manual combined with proprietary worksheets, charts and fill-in lists designed to give screenwriters a better way to focus on the task of writing a screenplay. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434

    The Industry's Premier Teacher Reveals the Secrets of the Successful Screenplay

    by Lew Hunter ...
    A step-by-step guide to writing a screenplay from an industry expertFor decades, Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course, launching a generation of the industry's most frequently produced writers. Here, he shares the secrets of his course on the screenwriting process by actually writing an original script, step by step, that appears in the book. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Writers Workshop of Science Fiction & Fantasy

    by Michael Knost ...
    Writers Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy is a collection of essays and interviews by and with many of the movers-and-shakers in the industry. Each contributor covers the specific element of craft he or she excels in. Expect to find varying perspectives and viewpoints, which is why you many find differing opinions on any particular subject.This is, after all, a collection of advice from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Complete Screenwriting Course

    A complete guide to writing, developing and marketing a script for TV or film

    Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenplay, this is one of the most inspiring books on screenwriting you'll ever read.Practical exercises will teach you the craft of writing for film and television, both mainstream and independent, the art of building your own plots, characters, dialogue and scenes. It gives you the skills ... Read more

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  • Inside the Room

    Writing Television with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program

    by Linda Venis ...
    What does it take to go from being a fan to professional television writer? For the first time outside of the UCLA Extension Writers' Programme classrooms, TV writers whose many produced credits include The Simpsons, House M.D., and Pretty Little Liars take aspiring writers through the process of writing their first spec script for an on-air series, creating one-hour drama and sitcom pilots that ... Read more

    $10.99 USD